The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-23
Bill Nye at Coney Island.

new York World, July IL.
yesterday was a dark, red.letter
DAY for Coney Island. The morning
was gorgeous. and along about l
o'clock a heavy shower raised the
lake SO that bathing was good all the
rest of the day.
"A great many people went down
there to rest and see how mitch they
could lift. l notice that people who
60 away on an excursion for rest
most always look more rested when
they 60 away than when they come
back.
4 AZ Coney Island great many Ia
boring people get rested by seeing
how much they can strike at five
cents per strike. You can get any
hing there almost for FIVE cents-a
andwich, glass of beer, slice of
watermelon, ride on the Brighton
Eltaee, whack at the strength tester,
or anything almost that heart can
wish, from breeze to bilious collie,
from flexible sandwich to stran.
gulated hernia.
Ii afforded me much pleasure to
watch the bathers pump up and
down in the dark blue sea and spat-
ter each other with water. Beauty
was not very plenty yesterday on
the beach. Aside from a tall, reddish
gentleman from this city. whose
name ought to be Esau and who had
moss on the north side of his limbs,
there were very few fine looking
men, and 80 when l went in it at
tracted general attention. The ladies
were mostly of uniform style of
beauty, and not wildly beautiful at
the time l was in. l heard that the
best looking ones waited, however.
until l had gone home.
Bathing costumes seem to be SINH
lar this year to what they have al
ways been. In stockings you occa-
sionalIy see pair in odd shades like
baby elephants, breath or smothered
shrimp pink, with embroidered soft
shell crabs on them but they are
mostly black.
The Oldest thing I saw in stock.
ings yesterday. 1 think, was an arti.
fetal foot.
They are still using the same hacks
at COney Island that were offered to
Washington in which to cross the
Della ware. He. however, decided to
skate across, for these hacks were
very old even at that time.
The "Wild Woman OF the Cat
skills.' is still on exhibition at the
museum. Girls who are little in.
clined to be wild will do we'll to see
her. They would never be wild any
more.
/ then bathed. 1 feel quite proud
of my suit, bause it does not bag at
the knees. This. 1 presume. is be-
cause the capacity of a bathing suit
for baggage is comparatively limi-
ted, and as mine seems to bag every
where else it cannot find time TO bag
at the knees.
Leaving my clothes. my conscien-
tious scruples, and my teeth in charge
OF my valet, 1 madly waded out to
meet my doom. If 1 had been 60
ing out to meet anybody else but a
moist doom L would have dressed
differently. L heard several low.
wealthy people say, "Get onto the
gun-wiper going out to monkey with
the tide" One glorious looking. with
her bathing.trousers rolled up at the
bottom 80 that they could not get
wet, said in tinkling voice: "There
Is a man who ought to have a sinker
tied to him. He will never drown,
but if land breeze springs up pretty
strong he will drift a long way out
to sea-"
/ did not tell her that it was my
intention to drift out to sea. because
1 was not acquainted with her. but
that was really what 1 drifted out
for.
After had inhaled all the salt
water that I thought was good for
me / retired from the surf. l then
dressed myself and strolled along the
strand. There is no charge for stroll.
ing along the strand. The poorest
man in New York. armed with q
large. warty club to keep off the
bunko men, may stroll along the
strand with perfect safety,
Presently 1 came upon a young
woman VINO was sitting by herself,
gazing out to sea and weeping. Al
first l thought she was crying be-
cause some one had stolen her clothes
while she was in the surf, but I soon
saw that I was wrong.
She had her bathing suit on and
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